A new button is available on the Fx bar at the right side of the FIG screen. When you click on it, a new window opens to a download location where you can download the current font to your local machine. Works for character fonts only. Not dingbats at the moment.
At the moment there are 492 character fonts on FIG with about 95% of them linked this way to a download source. All future fonts will be downloadable.
The font download files aren't hosted on FIG. For most fonts, numerous download sites can be found so why duplicate? My favorite is Dafont.com mostly because the search tools wok the best.
Please make a bug report if you notice any problems or bad links with the new feature.
~Jeff
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Is there any way you could put a moving image for pattern fill text?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inquiry.
ReplyDeleteIts possible to use animated GIF but only in a very limited way. FIG is optimized for PNG format to take advantage of alpha channel transparency used by many of the special effects.
Here is a simple glitter effect that fills text with an animated GIF. Paste this code into the Imagemagick editor.
-fuzz 46% -transparent \\#000000 -matte null: imgpath/canvas_glitter_blue.gif -compose Dst_Over -loop 0 -layers composite
Next, create a non-transparent GIF image using a fat font and size about 40. Then click apply.
The text will be filled with a blue animated glitter.
You can't do much else with the image however as further processing will likely convert it to PNG and the animation will be lost.
Thats about all I can offer at this time. If you have some animated tiles you want made available inside of FIG let me know.
If you develop animated effects in the ImageMagick editor, I'll be happy to place them in the effects library.
Thanks, if I find anything animated images I want to use, I will sure send them to you.
ReplyDeleteWHAT
ReplyDeleteI am a rookie at this font d.ling but I need a font and am trying to get it to work in a word file and its not working... would you be able to explain how I can use the font through microsoft word or where i should be saving it to in order for it to work?
ReplyDeletethanks!
Thanks for posting. To use a font in MSWord, you need to download it from the linked download site and install it locally on your computer. Another option might be to create an image on FIG using the font, save the image to your local computer, then insert it into the Word document and an image. I don't know of a way to use a remote font in MSWord on your computer.
ReplyDelete~Jeff